Teresa Izzard is a theatre director, movement director, dramaturg, creative producer and educator. She graduated from the UK’s first MA in Theatre Directing (University of East Anglia) and assisted Suzy Graham Adriani (Royal National Studio) and Jatinder Verma (Tara Arts). She studied movement and directing with Lorna Marshall. She was a member of The Young Vic Youth Theatre where she performed and co-directed Lorca’s Blood Wedding. Born in New Zealand, she spent her formative years in Britain and has been predominantly based in Perth since 1997. She is currently based in Sydney, but also regularly works bi-coastally in Western Australia. She is a Certified (Laban/Bartenieff) Movement Analyst, a Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, a trained dramaturg (Playwriting Australia/The Blue Room Theatre) and holds a prize-winning PhD in Theatre Direction (Curtin/WAAPA). She has studied Viewpoints with Anne Bogart, Mary Overlie and SITI Company and directing with Di Trevis and Elen Bowman. She was Head of Movement at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2014, a Theatre Arts lecturer and resident director at Curtin University until 2020 and taught Movement for Actors into the Music Theatre BA at WAAPA from 2019 until 2025. She is the Artistic Director and Creative Producer of Feet First Collective (FFC), an award winning, critically acclaimed theatre company founded in 2015 and is the lead coach of FFC’s training initiative Feet First Collective Training. Teresa brings her background in Laban, Viewpoints and Somatic Movement Education together with rigorous directorial processes to create clear visual and physical dramaturgy for challenging, provocative texts and devised works. FFC has premiered works in Western Australia, South Australia and Melbourne and was the Theatre Company in Residence at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2021. The company has performed at: Fremantle Arts Centre, The Rechabite, The Moores Building, The Jonesway Theatre and The Blue Room Theatre in Perth; and has toured to The Mill, Adelaide; Theatre Works, Melbourne and Erskineville Town Hall, Sydney. The company’s mission is to create embodied experiences that offer transformation and engagement with audiences through provocative form and content. FFC is known for larger scale, semi-immersive work such as their adaptation of Frankenstein, original work Medusa and Sarah Grochala’s S-27. However, the company’s focus encompasses small plays that can have a big impact such as Vivienne Walshe’s This Is Where We Live and the award-winning FFC production of James Gaddas’ Shadow Boxing. Shadow Boxing has been programmed for seasons at Theatre Works, Melbourne and Flight Path Theatre, Sydney and has been awarded funding from the WA Department of Culture and the Arts, and Creative Australia as part of the national Australian Cultural Fund’s BOOST matched funding initiative. Shadow Boxing was also selected for Showcase WA in 2025 and was programmed at the REAF Festival in Karratha, 2026. It has recently been selected for Arts on Tour’s SALON 2026 at the Seymour Centre, Sydney. FFC has just engaged in a creative development called Into The Yellow Wallpaper at ReadyMade Works and is collaborating with Sydney Acting Studio to offer professional development in movement and physical theatre.

Brief Artistic CV: https://issuu.com/tess72/docs/teresa_izzard_artistic_cv_2026_v_2

My Academic CV is quite long but available on request, just email me and I’ll send it to you. Thank you!

“Teresa has found a living and unique way of incorporating her movement techniques into her theatre practice. This makes her very ‘physical’ theatre performances mesmerising and an edge-of-your-seat experience.” (Silvia Lehmann, Director)

'Teresa's productions stand out in the Perth theatre scene due to their emotional and intellectual impact, she explores humanity, both the good and the bad, with visceral force. The focus in her productions is firmly on the interactions on stage between, and within, the characters. The emphasis on movement and physical presence is a marker of a Teresa Izzard production, it's difficult for the audience to take their eyes off the action. While the attention during a show is drawn to the characters and movement, what I am ultimately left with after seeing a production is lingering questions about our world, past and present.'  (Lia DeSousa, Teacher)

'Teresa Izzard is a gift to WA artists and audiences. My experience with Teresa over the past 15 years has been as her student, as a peer and an audience member of her profound works. Her movement training has influenced a generation of artists, giving voice to the body as our most powerful communicative tool. Her teaching in my early training shaped my own professional style as a director combining physical theatre, circus and contemporary dance with text. As a peer, I have borne witness to her practice, an intense collaboration founded on respect for the contributions all artists make to the creation of the work; and as an audience member, I have been moved by the visual power of the images she creates on stage. She is extraordinary.' (Karla Conway – Director, Dramaturg, Theatre-maker)